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Strategic Planning for Network and Systems Management by CA
interoperable single vendor systems management solutions, and get prepared for a VoIP deployment. This compilation of expert TechTarget tips offers an in-depth look at the best approaches to managing your organizations' network. Learn how to identify and convert performance data into useful information, choose between best of breed point solutions and...
How Can Infrastructure Management Help Me Reduce Costs and Increase Business Productivity While Improving Service Delivery? by CA
Infrastructure Management from CA consolidates and streamlines management of your IT infrastructure, helping you reduce expenses, address changing business demands and improve delivery and performance of services that drive the business. Infrastructure Management is available through CA's comprehensive EITM capability...
Doing More With Less: The Art of Data Center Automation by CA
automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans. Simplification and standardization of infrastructures will be the dominant themes of the next five years. In this webcast learn how data center automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans.

This webcast helps you understand how to:

  • Achieve IT evolution drivers
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Infrastructure: CIOs Take IT to the Next Level by CA
for both products and services. Effective infrastructure management and optimization can provide CIOs with compelling benefits. These benefits include: improved service levels; lower IT costs; enhanced productivity; faster responses to market changes; greater flexibility; a more environmentally friendly, "greener" environment; and quick, effective responses to user...
Strategies for Implementing Green IT Management by CA
solutions within six key Enterprise IT Management (EITM) focus segments for green IT initiatives CA provides integrated solutions within six key Enterprise IT Management (EITM) focus segments for green IT initiatives:

  • Data Center Automation
  • Application Performance Management
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Service Management
  • IT Security Management
  • IT
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IT Briefing: Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM by LSI Corporation
This paper highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. This paper highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. Discover how this solution addresses the major complexities and challenges...
Dell and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Virtualization and Management by Dell and Microsoft
of a powerful new set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management. With the introduction of Microsoft Hyper-V as part of Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you can now take advantage of a powerful new set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management and better utilize your hardware investments. Dell's HyperV reference...
Netuitive SI: Automated Performance Knowledge for Improved Systems Management by Netuitive, Inc.
while preserving user investment in infrastructure management tools like BMC PATROL and NetIQ AppManager. Netuitive SI is a performance analysis tool that improves productivity while preserving user investment in infrastructure management tools like BMC PATROL and NetIQ AppManager. Through features like Adaptive Behavior Profiles that automatically adjust...
Network Change and Configuration Management: Optimize Reliability, Minimize Risk and Reduce Costs by CA
Management is helping to reshape infrastructure management toward a more strategic, process-aligned discipline with a range of benefits. One of the most dramatic innovations in the infrastructure management marketplace is the rise of Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) as a strategic requirement. This white paper focuses on the key values that NCCM...
Monitoring and Managing the DataCenter in Today's Environment by Splunk
you will get to know some techniques for virtual infrastructure management and a real-life example of how one company reduced problem response time with an index-and-search approach to IT data. Monitoring and managing the data center is one of the most important - and challenging - tasks IT managers must perform. In today's environment, IT teams are forced to do more with less using...
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Software Continuously Analyze and Optimize Your Adaptive Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
combines the best of the industry-leading HP infrastructure management portfolio including HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Insight Control and HP Virtual Server Environment into one integrated offering for HP BladeSystem, ProLiant and Integrity servers. The result is a single toolkit that helps to accelerate complex technology projects and simplify daily operations...
Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization: Extending the power of System Center Operations Manager by Quest Software
identify a single solution for their systems management issues including managing the physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, desktops, and devices. Dealing with complexity in today's dynamic IT infrastructure is the single greatest challenge faced by IT Managers and support personal. This webcast will help IT professionals with systems...
The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
of service (QoS), performance monitoring, and management complexity.

This white paper reviews these setbacks and explores an approach that enables the SAN to support the virtualized data center by providing the following capabilities:

  • Virtual SAN infrastructure to simplify cluster deployments
  • Extension of virtual infrastructure management to SANs
  • Security
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SearchServerVirtualization.com E-Guide: Advanced Virtualization Management by CA
39;s instant benefits are great, but proper management techniques are essential for its long-term success. Read this expert e-guide for tips on vertical and horizontal scaling, preventing virtual sprawl, and more. Most virtualized data centers have been primarily focused on deploying virtualization and reaping its consolidation and energy-saving...
Storage Virtualization Tips by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
presentation, Curtis Preston highlights tips to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. VMware, MS Virtual Server and VirtualIron make a lot of things easier:
- They don't make backup easier and can make it harder
- I/O issues
- Complexity issues with virtualized backups

In this PowerPoint presentation, Curtis Preston highlights tips...
Management Strategy for Network Critical Physical Infrastructure by APC
Physical infrastructure management is the key to system availability, minimizing downtime risk and increasing personnel productivity. Learn the factors that should be considered when choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure la... A best in class NCPI management scheme should incorporate the use of an NCPI element manager...
File Virtualization For Dummies®: How to Get a Grip on Storage Growth and Reduce Costs by F5 Acopia Data Solutions
intelligent file virtualization to reduce infrastructure complexity, boost operational efficiency and get costs under control. Today's IT infrastructures are complex, inflexible and growing fast. Storage expenditures keep rising, resources are consumed by labor-intensive tasks, and management costs are spiraling higher.

So how do we avoid these issues? One option is...
Enable a Flexible, Efficient IT Infrastructure: Virtualization with Logical Domains and Sun Coolthreads™ Servers by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
for compute assets. You'll also receive tips to avoid server sprawl and control energy use. Read this white paper to learn about a virtualization strategy that can help you achieve a lower total cost of ownership and a higher return on investment for compute assets by leveraging these capabilities:
  • Hard partitioning tools
  • Operating system
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7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn by Microsoft
and self-proclaimed alpha-geek will present "7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn." These practical tips are designed to save money and deliver new capabilities to keep small and mid-sized organizations (SMBs) competitive. From simple solutions like reducing server and desktop power consumption, to consolidating applications on servers, Minasi...
An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. You need a data center optimization strategy that ensures high availability, simplifies operational complexity, adapts to your existing environment, and delivers a secure and responsive computing infrastructure - all while lowering TCO.

Take data center virtualization beyond consolidation with a...
Six Key Problems in the Virtualized Data Center and Tips to Solve Them by Juniper Networks, Inc.
control, capacity planning, system management, and security.

This white paper focuses on six key issues-and strategies for dealing with them-that will occur when application servers are combined into large virtual machine servers, including different security zones sharing the same physical infrastructure, traffic inspection and logging...
Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista by Microsoft
Adopting Windows Vista across a desktop infrastructure can come with challenges. This article looks at five features of Vista that can be misunderstood, provides their backgrounds and rationale, and presents solutions. No one would expect a new OS adoption to be easy, and certainly adopting Windows Vista® across a desktop infrastructure can come with a few...
Practical tips for unlocking virtualization and cloud computing cost savings by Third Brigade
Check out this webcast and learn how virtualization and cloud computing can help your company reduce operating costs while reducing risks and ensuring overall data security. Cloud computing and virtual technology are providing significant opportunities for today's businesses, but critical security and compliance risks have been...
Four Steps to Successfully Transition From Network Systems Management Suites by CITTIO
from a mega-suite. A Network and Systems Management (NSM) platform is a critical part of your business' technology infrastructure, enabling your IT staff to ensure the optimal performance of your networks, datacenters and business-facing applications. Replacing a legacy NSM mega-suite environment can be a daunting task. Yet, even with the risks associated with...
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Selecting a winning data center design team: Data center construction runbook, Chapter 2 by Karim Khan, SearchDataCenter.com
firms specializing in data center design and project management (often called MEPs, because they are experts in mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as the plumbing you'll need to keep things cool) are designing data centers with the technologies of 2008.

James S. Coe, PE, RCDD, a senior vice president of the Syska Hennessy Group and operations... More...

Modernizing mainframe applications: Old dog, new tricks by Robert Crawford, Contributor
an old piece of technology, be it hardware or software infrastructure that is unsupported, error prone or expensive. The application's design doesn't allow 24/7 operation or provide real-time information. It can't interface with the Web.

It may eventually come down to a judgment call, but its not one to be made lightly. Next is the task of convincing the executives... More...

Optimize IT operations with better staff management by Gene Kim, Contributor
s head, integrating that knowledge into incident management and restoration procedures so the organization can do things without Brent there every day.

Fixing systemic problems in IT operations
One of the biggest surprises from our Visible Ops research is the extent of the culture change when there is decreased reliance on Brent. There are still... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all... More...